Back Door to Hell 1964  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Monte Hellman
Cast: Jimmie Rodgers, Jack Nicholson, John Hackett, Annabelle Huggins, Conrad Maga, Johnny Monteiro, Joe Sison, Henry Duval, Ben Perez, Vic Uematsu
Under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, American G.I.s perform a reconnaissance mission in the Philippines during World War II.
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Cockfighter 1974 R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Born to Kill
Gamblin' Man
Wild Drifter
Director: Monte Hellman
Cast: Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Troy Donahue, Millie Perkins, Laurie Bird, Ed Begley Jr., Warren Finnerty, Robert Earl Jones, Steve Railsback, Patricia Pearcy, Tom Spratley
This violent thriller is about a Georgia man, Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates), who trains roosters to become fighting cocks. Frank's thoughts serve as narration–an interesting experiment in filmmaking.
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The Greatest 1977  PG, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Gries, Monte Hellman
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Muhammad Ali, John Marley, Robert Duvall, David Huddleston, Ben Johnson, James Earl Jones, Lloyd Haynes, Paul Winfield, Dina Merrill, Roger E. Mosley, Annazette Chase, Lucille Benson, Skip Homeier
This is the biography of boxer Muhammad Ali who plays himself–beginning as 18-year-old boxer Cassius Clay who wins a Gold medal at the Olympic Games. Later, he trains under Angelo Dundee (Ernest Borgnine) and wins the World Heavyweight title from Sonny Liston (Roger E. Mosley). Now, he converts to Islam, refuses to join the Army, and goes through a three-and-a-half year court battle before returning to the ring to retake the World Heavyweight title. Throughout the film, Muhammad Ali's actual fight sequences are inter-cut into the story.
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Iguana 1988  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Monte Hellman
Cast: Everett McGill, Maru Valdivielso, Michael Madsen, Fabio Testi, Joseph Culp, Robert Case, Roger Kendall, Tim R. Ryan, Luis Barboo, Jack Taylor
Based (loosely) on a true story, a short story by Herman Melvill, and finally a novel, this is the story of Oberlus (Everett McGill), a sailor with a deformed face. After he had been made fun of and shunned by other sailors, he ended up as an outcast on an island. When others are washed ashore, he takes out his bitterness and hatred for the human race on them.
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Ride in the Whirlwind 1965 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Monte Hellman
Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Jack Nicholson, Tom Filer, Millie Perkins, Katherine Squire, George Mitchell, Harry Dean Stanton, Rupert Crosse, John Hackett, B.J. Merholz
Three innocent cowboys (Cameron Mitchell, Jack Nicholson, and Tom Filer) are chased by vigilantes when they are suspected of being members of a gang of outlaws. A Corman/Nicholson cheapie; offbeat.
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The Shooting 1967  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Monte Hellman
Cast: Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Will Hutchins, Warren Oates, B.J. Merholz, Guy El Tsosie, Charles Eastman, Brandon Carroll, Wally Moon, James Campbell, William Macklepring
Ex-bounty hunter Willett Gashade (Warren Oates) is searching for his brother who has gone missing. He meets cowboy Coley (Will Hutchins) who is feeling a loss after witnessing his best friend's murder. Then a mysterious woman (Millie Perkins) appears on the scene and asks Gashade to escort her through the Utah desert. Coley and Gashade start the journey with the woman, and they are joined by bounty hunter Billy Spear (Jack Nicholson). They begin to suspect that the woman is trailing someone but are unsure of who it is, but they continue the trek only to be shocked by what they find. This is a Western with an ending you will remember.
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Someone to Love 1987 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Jaglom
Cast: Henry Jaglom, Michael Emil, Andrea Marcovicci, Sally Kellerman, Orson Welles, Monte Hellman, Ronee Blakely, Kathryn Harrold, Oja Kodar, Stephen Bishop
This film marks Orson Welles' last screen appearance. The story takes place at a theater party during which actors tell the camera how they seek satisfying emotional relationships.
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Two-Lane Blacktop 1971  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Monte Hellman
Cast: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson, David Drake, Richard Ruth, Rudy Wurlitzer, Jaclyn Hellman, Bill Keller, Harry Dean Stanton, Alan Vint, W.H. Harrison
An obsessed car racer, The Driver (James Taylor), and his cohort, The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson)–along with The Girl (Laurie Bird) who tags along with them after they pick her up while she is hitchhiking–live to be on the road in a 1955 Chevy heading from one race to the next. They meet middle-aged G.T.O. (Warren Oates) in his 1970 Pontiac, and he challenges them to a cross-country race. With the prize of the winner getting the loser's car, the race is on, and the interplay between the race, the highway, and human nature begins.
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| 1. Back Door to Hell (1964)
2. Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
3. Cockfighter (1974)
aka: Born to Kill
aka: Gamblin' Man
aka: Wild Drifter
4. Flight to Fury (1966)
5. The Greatest (1977)
6. Iguana (1988)
7. Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)
8. The Shooting (1967)
9. Someone to Love (1987)
10. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
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